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It is now clear that the launch games on PS4 will run at a higher resolution than the equivalent games on Xbox One. This has been confirmed for games including Call of Duty: Ghosts and Battlefield 4. Where as the Xbox One will run Ghosts and BF4 at 720p upscaled to 1080p, the PS4 versions run at 900p upscaled.

This difference has meant developers producing multiplatform games posting game footage from the PS4 build in a bid to show their titles off in the best way, and this has led to Microsoft and Ubisoft making an embarrassing mistake yesterday. Footage taken from the PS4 version of Watch Dogs ended up being posted on the official Xbox YouTube channel.

The mistake was noticed and posted on Reddit. The telling detail you can see in the image above is when representations of the PS4 DualShock 4 buttons appeared on screen. Apparently it didn’t take long for news of this to get back to Microsoft, who then tried to edit the buttons out before deciding to remove the video from its YouTube channel.

This isn’t something Microsoft would choose to do on purpose, and it’s more likely a mistake made by Ubisoft. I’m guessing Ubisoft sent the video to Microsoft, who then uploaded it to the channel with only the briefest of checks.

I’m sure whoever uploaded the video to YouTube has received a few angry emails from Microsoft’s upper management, and Ubisoft has surely had some correspondence too about asset supply. You can also guarantee Microsoft has implemented a more robust video review process today.